This analysis of the Swiss health system reviews recent developments in organization and
governance, health financing, health care provision, health reforms and health system …

Life expectancy in Sweden is high and the country performs well with respect to disease-
oriented indicators of health service outcomes and quality of care. The Swedish health …

Japan shows the advantages and limitations of pursuing universal health coverage by
establishment of employee-based and community-based social health insurance. On the …

This paper presents and compares two threshold approaches to measuring the fairness of
health care payments, one requiring that payments do not exceed a pre‐specified proportion …

Poverty and ill-health are intertwined. Poor countries tend to have worse health outcomes
than better-off countries. Within countries, poor people have worse health outcomes than …

This book is about global social policy. Global social policy consists of two things: first, it is
the social policy prescriptions for national social policy being articulated by global actors …

The Health Systems in Transition (‎ HiT)‎ country profiles provide an analytical description of
each health system and of reform initiatives in progress or under development. They aim to …

The paper surveys the economics literature on equity in health care financing and delivery.
The focus is, for the most part, on empirical work, especially that involving international and …

Economic Analysis in Health Care, Second Edition is intended as a core textbook for
advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of health economics. The authors …

Background Universal coverage of health care is now receiving substantial worldwide and
national attention, but debate continues on the best mix of financing mechanisms, especially …